Alibaba’s Alipay is now travelling to the US

The digital wallet crowd is getting a little more packed in the US, with Apple and
Android Pay being joined by two new competitors from the East.

Alipay, the payment platform offered by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has joined forces with US credit card processing service First Data Corporation, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

The partnership enables Chinese tourists who visit the country to use their mobile wallets at 4 million merchants and retailers.

It comes after WeChat Pay was also reported to have expanded into US through a partnership with integrated mobile payment platform Citcon. The WeChat messaging app is huge in China, with over 700 million users as of last June, according to eMarketer.